Beba L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0322
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Beba L., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1925. She recounts her grandfather's partnership in Rom Publishing; attending private school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups of people who never returned; ghettoization in September; being hidden with a non-Jewish family for three months; their priest's efforts to convert her (she did not care, if it led to her survival); visiting the ghetto, not intending to stay; finding her immediate family of seven gone; living with an aunt; receiving food from her former non-Jewish maid; working at Gestapo headquarters; passing information to the underground; transfer to Kaiserwald in September 1943; slave labor digging trenches and in a factory; and transfer to Torun?, then Stutthof. Ms. L. discusses relations between ethnic groups in camps; sabotage in the factory; prisoners beating a prisoner who worked too fast; and her sense she would not survive.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • L., Beba, -- 1925-

Corporate Bodies

  • Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  • Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Forced labor.
  • Identification (Religion)
  • Sabotage.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Child survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Poland.
  • Vilna ghetto.
  • Vilna (Poland)
  • Toruń (Poland : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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